Colgate-Palmolive Company is an American multinational consumer products company headquartered on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It specializes in the production, distribution and provision of household, health care, personal care and veterinary products.
Ajax is a brand of household cleaning products and detergents made by Colgate-Palmolive. The brand is also licensed by Colgate-Palmolive in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.
Darlie, originally known as Darkie, is a toothpaste brand of Hawley & Hazel Chemical Company. Hawley & Hazel was established in Shanghai in 1933 and later based in Taiwan (1949) and Hong Kong (1973). In 1985, Colgate-Palmolive acquired 50% of Hawley & Hazel.
Mennen is a brand owned in most parts of the world by the Colgate-Palmolive Company. Its most notable product, Mennen Speed Stick, with its fougère perfume and green wide stick, was the US market leader among deodorants and antiperspirants for men for many years. It was also noted for its Lady Speed Stick deodorant and Teen Spirit deodorant, which was the leader in teenage girls' deodorants during the early 1990s.
Tom's of Maine is a brand name and manufacturing company of personal care products with only natural ingredients and a majority-owned subsidiary of Colgate-Palmolive since 2006. The company's products are intentionally made without ingredients that are chemically derived, environmentally damaging, or are tested on animals. While most of its products are vegan, some contain propolis and/or beeswax sourced from bees. The company was founded in 1970 by Tom and Kate Chappell in Maine, United States.
Speed Stick is an American brand of deodorant/antiperspirant produced by multinational healthcare company Colgate-Palmolive. It was formerly known as "Mennen Speed Stick" prior to Colgate-Palmolive's purchase of The Mennen Company. Currently, the products feature the words "by Mennen" in a small font on the label. Speed Stick comes in both deodorant and antiperspirant forms. Speed Stick is both a sponsor and the official antiperspirant of the NHL.
Softsoap is the trade name of Colgate-Palmolive's liquid hand soap and body wash.
Teen Spirit is a deodorant, originally sold by Mennen, then Colgate-Palmolive.
The Colgate Clock, located at a former Colgate-Palmolive factory in Clarksville, Indiana, is one of the largest clocks in the world. It has a diameter of 40 feet. It was first illuminated in Clarksville on November 17, 1924. It is located directly across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky.
Colgate-Palmolive Pakistan, formerly known as National Detergents Limited, is a Pakistani consumer goods company which is a subsidiary of American multinational company Colgate-Palmolive and Pakistani company Lakson Group. It was founded in 1977 and is based in Karachi, Pakistan.
Colgate is an American brand principally used for oral hygiene products such as toothpastes, toothbrushes, mouthwashes and dental floss. Manufactured by Colgate-Palmolive, Colgate oral hygiene products were first sold by the company in 1873, sixteen years after the death of the founder, William Colgate. The company originally sold soap.
Fresh Start was the first powdered detergent to come in a plastic bottle. It was also one of the first detergents to be highly concentrated, before all detergents went concentrated.
Stanley Maddox Rumbough Jr. was an American businessman, entrepreneur, distinguished veteran, philanthropist, activist, longtime civic leader and a member of Colgate-Palmolive. As a businessman and investor, he was a founder, chief executive officer or director of more than 40 companies in the United States, West Indies and Mexico.
Federal Trade Commission v. Colgate-Palmolive Company, 380 U.S. 374 (1965), was a United States Supreme Court case.
Martin Hill Ittner was a chemist working for Colgate, now known as Colgate-Palmolive. He is best known for his contributions to applied chemistry, including the development of toothpaste and detergent.
Ian M. Cook is a British businessman. He served as the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Colgate-Palmolive.
Palmolive is an American brand of a line of products produced by the parent company, Colgate-Palmolive. The name originated in 1898, and the company sells associated products in various countries. Such products include soap, dishwashing liquid, shampoo, hair conditioner, body wash and liquid hand-wash.
Vel Soap or Vel Detergent is a soap liquid detergent by Colgate-Palmolive. Introduced in the United States in the late 1940s, the product was sold in places such as Argentina, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and other Latin American countries as well as in Scandinavia. In Mexico, it was sold as Vel Rosita. This was due to the liquid being pink as well as the bottles it was sold in.
